The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-09-24
with PLEASURE"
How I Became Acquainted With
My Lieutenant.

$50 you are engaged to be married.
and to a Prussian officer, too?" said
Olga.
Eyes, my dear Marie, and we are to
be married some time this fall. /"
"How in the world did you come to
make his acquaintance Were the cir
cumstances very romanttG2s'SaA'
mo, there was nothing very roman
tic with Lieutenant Hoffman, but the
circumstances were very funny. |
have laughed over them a hundred
times. However, will tell you pre-
cisely how it occurred, and you can
judge for yourself.
II am all ears. You have no idea
how delight to listen to love stories"
"You see, last summer we took trip
to Carlsbad for the benefit of pas
health. Pa has grown very stout of
late, and he had to go there in order to
reduce his weight thirty orforty pounds.
At first he wanted to go by himself.
He said he didn't need to take any of
ma took all that foolishness out of his
head. y
..What selfish man your pa must
be not to want to take you with him. -
.Well, he had to take us with him
anyhow. This was the first time we
had ever been any where. and you can
have no idea how excited we were, /
and my sister. We were excited be-
fore we left home. We were still
more excited during the trip, and
when we got there l hardly knew
whether stood on my head or on my
heels"
''How did you like hotel life at the
watering placer
I'VE were too much excited to
know what we liked or disliked I
and my sister Caroline had small
room all to ourselves, and we stayed
awake half the first night talking
about the wonderful sights we ex-
pected to see and the wonderful
people with whom we might become
acquainted.
You were thinking about the Lieu
tenant then, suppose"
'How could be thinking about him
when had never seen him in my life
That night l had the strangest dream
it was possible for any body to have.
owing, suppose to my excitement. |
dreamed that l fell into the water, and
was almost drowned, and that big
stout man saved my life. Then l
dreamed that the hotel was on fire. l
imagined that could hear the people
calling fire! fire. +"
''Then you dreamed that the Lieuten-
ant came to your rescue"
You keep still about my Lieutenant.
I'll tell you about him after a while. l
heard the call of fire so plainly. that
when / awoke l was fully persuaded
that the house was really on fire. /
jumped up without thinking about
Caroline, rushed into the hall to save
myself. could neither hear nor see
any thing. There was no sign of fire.
The only sound l could hear was
the beating of my own heart. l then
understood that / was deceived by
dream"
"But my dear Marie, when are you
going to tell about the Lieutenant"
"You seem to be very anxious to hear
about him. Can't you have patience?
The next thing was to get back into
my room. felt along the wall until l
got to the door, opened it, and as
was shivering with cold, said to Caro-
line: viii you throw me shawl?' A
deep voice that never could have been
Caroline's replied: Certainly, with
pleasure. screamed, because | knew
that was in a strange room. Forum
ately, had the door handle in my hand.
got out as fast as l could. Forum
ately, remembered that our door was
next to the stairs. / was glad to get
into my room, and how my sister Caro-
line made fun of me. 1t was perfectly
shameful, but she promised not to tell
anybody about it"
''Not even the Lieutenantp'
''For three days / never moved out
of my room for fear that l should
meet that man with the deep
voice. l pretended to be sick Pa
wanted to send for doctor, but / re-
fused to let him. was so nervous that
jumped when the door was closed.
At last, Caroline said that if | didn't
come out of the room she would tell on
me, so l had to go down to the dinner
table. All the faces at the table were
strange to me. There was sitting
alongside of me a big, broad-shouldered
officer with handsome features, and
such handsome beard.
$50 you have got to the Lieutenant
at last"
HE was very polite, and as my soup
had no salt ia it, ! asked him to pass
me the salt. Certainly. with pleasure.
he replied. The words and the voice
were the same | had heard that dread
full night l tainted away right in my
chair, and was carried to my room"
II suppose the Lieutenant helped to
carry you to your rcom."
Certainly he did, with pleasure, al
though l did not know it at the time.